Note that she mentions Kloekhorst’s paper on the possibility of Wilusa speaking a Tyrsenian/pre-Etruscan language...
The Aeneas legend is super old in Italy and may well pre-date the spread of the Homeric story.
So that may indeed be preserving the “point of view of the other side”.
I wasn’t aware of the possibility that the Roman connection to the Trojans was anything other than imperial propaganda.
Probably related. The Lemnian Stele, their major trading partners, tomb decorations, all point to Aegean roots and/or relatives. The Romans borrowed / co-opted the story of the Etruscan migration, which was current common knowledge in Herodotus' time.